Weather API wrapper
About this project
This was written in flask, it's a simple API wrapper project. PS: remember to pip install the requirements.txt file.
The main code for the wrapper I have written in a Class inside weather_api.py all avg, max, min, mean, and median calculations is done on the 5 day forcast section only.
Getting Started
Clone this repo
Register for an Accuweather API key here: https://developer.accuweather.com/
- first create a .env file for your API keys and secret stuff in the same repository folder
add the following sections to the .env file, replace {Accuweather API KEY HERE} with your own accuweather API key. These are just temp keys and for demonstration purpose only.
- API_KEY={Accuweather API KEY HERE}
- USER_API_KEY=HEalKYLasbudgENtErTElaCRUlTHY
- SALT=RAfTYLIThIckLeWIsTEmICItAChag
If you are on a mac or linux environment then there is a shell script "get_up_and_running.sh" which you can run to get this project running on a local web server.
Else you would need run the following in your terminal to get the web server up.
export FLASK_APP=app.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
flask run
- User API key for testing purpose only - d2e78bbf822ca098393d50423eae7f6a
Running the endpoints to see results
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I have a folder with a postman JSON export, which you can import into your own postman and trigger the endpoints
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or just use the curl commands below in your terminal
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1 day weather results
curl --location --request GET 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/forecasts/v1/daily/1day/?key=d2e78bbf822ca098393d50423eae7f6a&city=brackenfell' -
5 days weather results
curl --location --request GET 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/forecasts/v1/daily/5day/?key=d2e78bbf822ca098393d50423eae7f6a&city=brackenfell'
Barchart
you can see the barchart by visiting http://127.0.0.1:5000/forecasts/v1/daily/5day/barchart/?city=brackfenfell